A Unified analysis of existentials and psych-constructions in Korean as pseudo-transitives

• Kyumin Kim ^[1]
  1. [1] Cheongju University

     Cheongju University

     Corea del Sur

     
• Localización: Studia linguistica: A journal of general linguistics, ISSN 0039-3193, Vol. 70, Nº 2, 2016, págs. 144-179
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper compares the transitivity of existential and psych-constructions in Korean to canonical transitives and intransitives. It is shown that these constructions are neither transitives nor intransitives. This paper argues that they can be unified as pseudo-transitives (i.e., somewhere between transitives and intransitives) and provides a structural analysis for pseudo-transitives using Appl. Pseudo-transitives provide support for the theory that transitivity is a continuum, and not categorical (Hopper & Thompson 1980).